Reorder Animations in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002 for Windows

Learn to reorder animations on a slide in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002 for Windows.

Author:Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002 for Windows

OS: Windows XP and higher

Date Created: April 01, 2009Last Updated: April 01, 2009

You need to reorder your animations mainly because you might have more than one animated object on a slide,
and you discover that some re-sequencing of animations as they happen in relation to each other may provide a
better result. For something of this sort, PowerPoint provides a Reorder option that lets you play with the sequence
of the animation:

Note: Reordering only works if there are more than one animated objects on a slide.

Follow these steps to reorder existing animations:

Before you start, make a duplicate copy of your slide in the presentation. This is easily achieved by selecting the slide in
Slide Sorter view
(see PowerPoint Views)
or the Slides pane, and pressing Ctrl
+D. This duplicates the slide, and it's good to know that you have a copy of the slide that you can go back
to just in case!

Next, make sure that the Custom Animation Task Pane is visible, as shown in Figure 1.
If this Task Pane is not visible, you won't be able to see or select any animations.

For PowerPoint 2007 users, make sure that the shape is still selected, then activate the Animations tab of the
Ribbon. Next click the Custom Animation
button to bring up a Task Pane of the same name that you can see in Figure 1. Remember, this is a toggle
option: click once to show the Custom Animation Task Pane, and click again to hide it!

Users of earlier PowerPoint versions (PowerPoint 2002 and 2003) can again make sure that the object is selected.
Then they should choose Slide Show | Custom Animation to access a similar Task Pane
(see Figure 1).

Select any of the animations in the Custom Animation Pane that you want to reorder, as shown in
Figure 1.

Figure 1: Custom Animation Task Pane

Now click either of the Reorder arrow buttons (above and below), located under the Animations listing,
as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Reorder buttons

Once you have reordered your animations, preview them to make sure that the results look like what you intended.
You might have to tweak the animation events a little if
reordering made some changes to them.

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